HolIgor: The Indian representative is 9 years old 1kyu.
unkx80: Fu Li is playing again? He was professional 4 dan before retiring! I guess he is going to sweep this WAGC again with 8 wins.
Bob McGuigan: Not necessarily. There are probably other players at mid-level pro strength, such as the Japanese representative Nakazono. I'm not sure that having been a pro is a bar against playing as an amateur. In fact, in China, pro status is not just related to strength. They have to play in certain tournaments and perform other required duties to maintain pro status. As for strength, the first WAGC winner, Nie Wei Ping was 9p strength when he won the tournament. And the Japanese player Sakai who won in 2000 turned pro and started at 5p.
HolIgor: If the record of the 5th round game between Ted Ning and Diana Koszegi is correct, then Ted Ning is an extraordinary gentleman.
Stefan: Indeed. No further discussion as to who wins the fair-play prize.
DrStraw What is this about?
RafaelCaetano: See the game record. I was puzzled when I saw it. Only now I understood that Ning must have done it on purpose (his last move, I mean).
(you need a UGI viewer to see the games; gGo will do as well)
unkx80: I am suprised as well. Could the obvious blunder by Diana be attributed to time pressure? Yet Ning allowed Diana to win by 0.5. Wow, I can't do that.
Velirun: Maybe he was under time pressure as well, and was off-count by one point... that would be rather tragic.
Rafael: Not likely, Velirun. Diana's mistake is understandable, but it wouldn't make sense for Ning to connect instead of capturing. Also, my professor pointed out that in the final position White (Ning) wins by 0.5. Either the game record is wrong or (more likely) Ning gave up one more point, so that the result was as if Diana hadn't blundered. Which makes sense: it would be no good to be half a gentleman, refraining to win by 30 points only to win by half a point.
On a totally seperate front... I just wanted to check if it was okay to take the ugi files (is ugi synonymous with ugf?) from the wagc site, make them into sgf and place them available for download. Can I take it there are no copyright objections?
DougRidgway See kifu copyright discussion and KfLenz and links. Dr. Lenz's views are particularly interesting because he is a professor of IP law in Japan.
Machi? The game record was wrong. In actual play, Diana (b) won by 0.5, and Ted (w) asked for a recount to confirm the result. Thank god this game just happens to be IGS-lived and they have the kifu.